Pokemon Ranger: The Hero of Oblivia

Her Name was Eden

After lunch, Ben finally allowed me to go down to the basement and study some things. He said that he would be down a little later to read, but he wanted to finish something up. First order of business: destroy all trashy horror novels so that the Ghost Pokemon wouldn't get anymore ideas. I think I found the one that they were referring to earlier. It was called 'A Ghastly Discovery' by a girl named Aurey. It didn't seem to be a published novel, in any case.  It seemed to be held together by a flimsy piece of leather.

I looked around and spotted another unpublished book by this Aurey. It was called 'A Cacturne of Events' and her puns were awful. But I couldn't help give a small smile at them, because I was quite fond of puns myself.

I was amazed to find that there were a lot of books by Aurey. At least 1/10 of all of the books were by Aurey, and that was a lot considering how many books Amun had. The last book written by Aurey was 'The Last of the Legends'. Flipping the book over, I read the summary. (Which I never got why she wrote the summary before she finished the book, but to each their own.)

Her name was Eden.

There was a line with just that name. That was it? That was the summary? Intrigued by the lack of detail compared to her other works, I flipped through the book quickly.

From what I skipped over, Eden was a girl with the uncanny ability to speak to Pokemon. Sounds familiar, I thought with a wide grin. The wonders of Eden didn't stop there. She had been raised by a Legendary Pokemon named Lugia.

Apparently, this was Aurey's hypothesis of the Hero of Oblivia. According to the book, Lugia once had a biological child of her own, but it had been hunted and taken away from the mother, never to be seen again. Lugia had grown bitter towards humanity for their crimes and sought to destroy the ones who took her child, but that's where Eden came in.

Eden, a small baby, was drifting afloat in a wicker basket that starting to sink. The family that she had come from couldn't afford a child, so they thought the only solution was to let their child drift until the baby drowned or was found. Whichever happened they left to fate.

Lugia, about to go on a hunt for the monsters that killed her child, spotted the baby and cradled the basket in her mouth and flew home, forgetting the pursuit of the hunters.

In fact, Lugia seemed determined to raise this child herself. And the child, whom Aurey decided to call Eden, grew up speaking in the natural tongue of Pokemon. She would fly on the back of her mother Pokemon and they were a happy family, Eden even made large amounts of Pokemon friends.

But when Eden grew into a teenager, she wanted to head away from her home and explore the land, especially when she saw that Pokemon were going missing. And that was the last Lugia would ever see of her child, never knowing what would become of the girl she raised.

Aaaand... That's where the book ended. I was actually curious on how it ended, as well. I knew for sure that it had something to do with the Hero of Oblivia. After all, from some of the passages I glanced at in Amun's books, it was rumored that the Hero could understand Pokemon, or at least held a strong enough bond with them to where it was like they had an unspoken connection. I caught myself making a theory about a novel, which was was supposed to be a fiction novel! Why was I taking any of this literally??

Because you want to believe that there is no such thing as coincidence.

Hmmm... Maybe I should ask Scratchy and Smooth. I wasn't sure why I would ask them, but I figured that I should just because you can never be too sure. And, man, was that statement proven to be true in the past few weeks.

I slipped the book into my backpack to get a closer look at it later and leaned against the bookshelf.

"Scratchy? Smooth?" I called out loud, not caring if I sounded crazy. All of the Pokemon were helping Ben upstairs, so I should be good. "This gal requests your presence."

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